Birds of Passage

It's like this film was created by an algorithm to make me want to watch it, and there's nothing wrong with it - it's great - but there's also nothing extremely memorable about it. Apparently I need to watch Embrace of the Serpent.

On a surface level, the gangster story arc is pretty standard fare for the genre, but when told through the eyes of an indigenous people who have spent generations resisting colonialism only to have to now deal with the chaos and violence of gang warfare, the film treads into territory I don't think I've seen any other film go. While not without its flaws, it's engaging on both an emotional and intellectual level and left me mulling over its themes days after leaving the cinema.

Very straight-forward, linear, and plain in presenting this 12 year odyssey. Maybe it needed less rigidity in how it depicts these gang-war relations and needed more oomph, but it's eager in presenting a well told and non-glamourised account of this incompatibility between materialism, spirituality, and long-held community traditions.

Se a série Narcos tivesse uma versão com indígenas o resultado seria este filme. O roteiro é uma espiral descendente de eventos trágicos e vinganças. Excelente!

The setting is a refreshing take on the genre, and it's more poetic than most entries within that genre as well. It's strikingly beautiful, wonderfully shot. Acting is good; believable but no one really stands out. The plot itself is the weakest link because under all the gloss it's pretty simplistic and normal for the genre... which is a shame because the strongest elements deserve a more able story to compliment them. It's still a great film, though.

Surprisingly simplistic in structure, lacks the sophistication of Embrace of the Serpent, the poor acting also doesn't help.

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Kolombiya'da esrarengiz işler. Başlık parası toplamaya çalışan 1 genç, Amerikalıların esrar aradığını farkeder. Geriye dönüş kazançları inanılmaz olur. Ağır ilerleyen temposuna karşın, aşiretlerin gelenek ve görenekleri iyi yansıtılmış. 4 bölüme ayrılan film, 1 iç savaşa dönüşüp intikam alınıyor. Kolay sona kaçmasaydı başyapıttı. Don giy don giy don giy don giy don

Carefully made, haunting, perfectly directed and ably acted. This is a crime drama for the ages.

A great movie to rival "Embrace of the Serpent", though its closest relative may be "Time of the Gypsies", which is meant as truly high praise.

sometimes i don't rank a film when i am hesitant about my feelings about it. i wait and wait to see if it ever comes to my mind in any context. this one didn't, unlike the debut film of the director duo, "embrace of the serpent".